The Cecil Byrd Collective - Studies in Shadow and Fruit - Red Note Jazz

Описание: Studies in Shadow and Fruit stands as a formally constructed ensemble document grounded in proportion, restraint, and tonal architecture. The work is conceived as a unified still life in sound, where timbral contrast functions as compositional geometry rather than display. Brass, wood, resonance, and silence are positioned with deliberation, each gesture calibrated within an internal balance of density and space.

This recording is a conceptual ensemble realization created through human artistic direction and artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence operates strictly as a formal analytical and generative instrument, employed to examine pattern, proportion, ensemble behavior, and long form structural equilibrium. It remains subordinate to human judgment, historical awareness, and aesthetic intent.

The result is not a literal session but a historically framed archival construct. Its character is intimate yet rigorous, treating shadow and luminosity as parallel studies in sonic contour, weight, and restraint.

Tracklist

Still Life Overture

Brass in Low Relief

Orchard in Monochrome

Midnight Aperture

Pear Study I

Counterform in Ebony

Chamber of Silver Air

Fruit Against Black

Slow Metal Reflection

Quiet Geometry

Afterimage in Wood

Apple and Valve

Resonant Tabletop

Darkened Register

Study for Hollow Brass

Orchard Interval

Tonal Chiaroscuro

Bass in Shadow

Pear Study II

Contour of Breath

Silver Key Meditation

Nocturne for Upright

Compressed Light

Formal Stillness

Final Arrangement

Conceptual Ensemble
Alto Saxophone
Trumpet
Upright Bass
Piano
Drum Set

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